climbing96
New member
Being a forum rookie, and being excited about all the fart smellers...I mean smart fellers on this forum, I posted the following into my introduction post.
I am in the process of building a twin Hayabusa motorcycle powered off road buggy. I am playing with the idea of electric boost for a couple of reasons. First and foremost is that I do not buy into the "Turbos are free boost" mentality. I believe it constricts the exhaust and therefore takes some horsepower away from the system to make horsepower for the system, making it less efficient. Superchargers have been proven to take horsepower to make horsepower. I have seen some Youtube videos about electric superchargers (AlexLTDLX and others) and they seem to be using a battery bank (which is charged before) to run the supercharger to make a drag strip run which would be free horsepower in reference to taking horsepower (none) to make horsepower. The second reason I am toying with the idea is that the design of the exhaust can be so much simpler and can be designed to be as free flowing as needed, or tuned to create a bit more bottom end. Third reason is that I do want bottom end as well as top end, and an electric supercharger can be programmed to make boost where ever I want regardless of throttle position, so no turbo lag. Now for the first part that I need help with.
1. How would driving the electric supercharger with the engines electrical charging system load the engine compared to a turbo or supercharger?
2. Is it even feasible to have an electric supercharger that can produce full boost at any rpm all day every day?
3. How much boost would I need to make 250 HP per engine that starts life with maybe 190 HP NA?
If this goes well, I also want to explore the possibility of electric supercharging an '08 F450 with a DT360 in it (another project I have on the go).
My next questions will come after I have an understanding of the above questions, but it will be where do I get parts for this system for the Hayabusa's. Looking forward to hearing from all you out of the box thinkers;-)
I am in the process of building a twin Hayabusa motorcycle powered off road buggy. I am playing with the idea of electric boost for a couple of reasons. First and foremost is that I do not buy into the "Turbos are free boost" mentality. I believe it constricts the exhaust and therefore takes some horsepower away from the system to make horsepower for the system, making it less efficient. Superchargers have been proven to take horsepower to make horsepower. I have seen some Youtube videos about electric superchargers (AlexLTDLX and others) and they seem to be using a battery bank (which is charged before) to run the supercharger to make a drag strip run which would be free horsepower in reference to taking horsepower (none) to make horsepower. The second reason I am toying with the idea is that the design of the exhaust can be so much simpler and can be designed to be as free flowing as needed, or tuned to create a bit more bottom end. Third reason is that I do want bottom end as well as top end, and an electric supercharger can be programmed to make boost where ever I want regardless of throttle position, so no turbo lag. Now for the first part that I need help with.
1. How would driving the electric supercharger with the engines electrical charging system load the engine compared to a turbo or supercharger?
2. Is it even feasible to have an electric supercharger that can produce full boost at any rpm all day every day?
3. How much boost would I need to make 250 HP per engine that starts life with maybe 190 HP NA?
If this goes well, I also want to explore the possibility of electric supercharging an '08 F450 with a DT360 in it (another project I have on the go).
My next questions will come after I have an understanding of the above questions, but it will be where do I get parts for this system for the Hayabusa's. Looking forward to hearing from all you out of the box thinkers;-)
